Mastery

Mastery by Robert Greene Audio Summary, explains how to master any sector or art

The book originated from a realization that Greene reached while writing and researching his previous books; Greene concluded that the people he studied had similar paths to success. After finishing The 50th Law, Greene focused on this concept in writing Mastery.

Mastery explains how to become successful by examining the lives of historical figures such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Albert Einstein, as well as through Greene's interviews with contemporary figures such as Teresita Fernández, Cesar Rodriguez, and Daniel Everett.

The book originated from a realization that Greene reached while writing and researching his previous books; Greene concluded that the people he studied had similar paths to success. After finishing The 50th Law, Greene focused on this concept in writing Mastery.

I: Discover Your Calling: The Life’s Task

II: Submit to Reality: The Ideal Apprenticeship

__Step One: Deep Observation - The Passive Mode

__Step Two: Skills Acquisition - The Practice Mode

__Step Three: Experimentation - The Active Mode

__Strategies for Completing the Ideal Apprenticeship

III: Absorb the Master’s Power: The Mentor Dynamic

__Strategies for Deepening the Mentor Dynamic

IV: See People as They Are: Social Intelligence

__General Knowledge - The Seven Deadly Realities

__Strategies for Acquiring Social Intelligence

V: Awaken the Dimensional Mind: The Creative-Active

__Step One: The Creative Task

__Step Two: Creative Strategies

__Step Three: The Creative Breakthrough

__Strategies for the Creative-Active Phase

____1. The Authentic Voice

____2. The Fact of Great Yield

____3. Mechanical Intelligence

____4. Natural Powers

____5. The Open Field

____6. The High End

____7. The Evolutionary Hijack

____8. Dimensional Thinking

____9. Alchemical Creativity and the Unconscious

VI: Fuse the Intuitive with the Rational: Mastery

__Strategies for Attaining Mastery

____1. Connect to your environment—Primal Powers

____2. Play to your strengths—Supreme Focus

____3. Transform yourself through practice—The Fingertip Feel

____4. Internalize the details—The Life Force

____5. Widen your vision—the Global Perspective

____6. Submit to the other—The Inside-out Perspective

____7. Synthesize all forms of knowledge—The Universal Man/Woman

Masters excel because of their ability to practice harder and move faster through the process, all stemming from the intensity of their desire to learn and from the deep connection they feel to their field of study.

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.

First, you must see your attempt attaining mastery as something extremely necessary and positive.

Second, you must convince yourself of the following: people get the mind and quality of brain that they deserve through their actions in life.